Re: [gutvol-d] PG audience

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:

Michael Hart wrote:

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They don't realize the the walls of academia have been penetrated by the virtual world. . .for them to try to stop eBooks is like James Watson's efforts to stop Craig Venter from mapping DNA, or even his efforts to stop the model building Crick 50 years ago.

Well, well, capitalism *has* to be good for something.

So lets praise capitalism for kicking the clerics in the *** and freeing information from the inprisonment in monasteries ... before we start kicking capitalism in the *** for making information a proprietary article.

I'm not sure ANY of the above was done via capitalism. . . . Certainly not Watson, Crick, Venter. . .or PG eBooks. . . . ;-)